Category: Barack Obama

State Budget: Skelos and Silver offer some details. [Jimmy Vielkind]
Libya: “[T]he Democratic president echoed the language of his Republican predecessor.” [Michael Shear]
Libya: A Kos blogger ties Obama’s argument for action in Libya to the health car… More »

Ahead of his first fund-raiser, Obama hung out with the mayor.
Via pool reporter Jonathan Lemire:
Pool held for about 30 minutes in one of the Museum’s empty rooms while Obama taped his interviews with Brian Williams, Erica Hill and Diane Sawyer.
Direc… More »

Libya: Obama declared mission accomplished. [Richard Sisk and Helen Kennedy]
Libya: Obama’s speech. [WSJ]
Libya: “He declined to label the U.S.-led military campaign as a “war,” but made an expansive case for why he believed it was in the national … More »

President Obama has issued a statement lauding the late former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, praising her for her success in breaking the glass ceiling in the traditionally male-dominated world of US politics. “Michelle and I were saddened to learn about the passing of Geraldine Ferraro. Geraldine will forever be remembered as a trailblazer who broke down More »

“I think what he did was illegal and unconstitutional.”
That was Jerry Nadler, the liberal Democratic congressman, in an interview this weekend, referring to President Obama and the military intervention in Libya.
Those concerns were also raised on a c… More »

Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, just released a strongly worded statement opposing U.S. involvement in the international coalition enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya — a mission that now seems to be reaching toward the elimination of the Gadhafi regime. “Now is not the time to take on new missions,” Gibson said. A retired Army colonel […] More »

Liberal West Side Rep. Jerry Nadler highlights another potential rift between Obama and the left, this time, over the use of military force in Libya.
Nadler:
“The President has an obligation under the Constitution to seek the approval of Congress for a… More »

Earmarks: “[L]awmakers still have a way to get their favorite projects funded: appealing directly to federal agencies. [Ray Hernandez]
Database: Empire Center publishes 2010 state payroll. [Manhattan Institute]
Egypt: Footage of Hillary Clinton in Tahr… More »

Two Democratic members of the NY congressional delegation are praising President Obama’s decision to end the DOJ’s legal battle over the Defense of Marriage Act – the federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The DOJ has determined in a pair of cases in the federal appeals court in New More »

Here’s Sen. Chuck Schumer chatting with reporters at last night’s caucus weekend gala. While he side-stepped questions of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget, which was the topi du jour of the evening, he had a lot to say about the budget talks going on in Washington, D.C. New York’s senior senator said he thinks President Obama More »

Mayor Bloomberg told TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel that he believes Rahm Emanuel would make a “good” mayor of Chicago, and he’s willing to assist the former White House chief of staff in his quest. Bloomberg said he has been in touch with Emanuel as recently as this week. The tough-talking ex-congressman sent the mayor More »

New York elected officials are scrambling to make a play for the $2.4 billion worth of federal high-speed rail cash rejected earlier today by Florida – a move that will again force the Obama administration to reallocate the funds. Reps. Louise Slaughter and Paul Tonko wrote a letter to US Transportation Sceretary Ray LaHood (which More »

New York lawmakers Peter King and Nita Lowey sent a letter to President Obama today imploring him to meet New York’s financial needs for homeland security in his proposed budget for the fiscal year 2012.
Peter King serves as the chairman of the Committ… More »

It seems that everywhere you turn these days, there’s Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. In Vogue. On the Senate floor delivering a passionate speech in support of the Zadroga bill. At a press conference receiving kudos from Sen. Chuck Schumer for her work on Zadroga and the repeal of DADT. On set with Jon Stewart, who called More »

That, of course, would be Sen. Malcolm Smith. The Queens Democrat has not given up hope that New York will some day have a super-speedy rail system, despite the fact that elected officials have been pushing for this since time immemorial (or at the very least since back in former Gov. Mario Cuomo’s day, as More »

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